Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
by TheOtherHobbes on Friday May 24, 2019 @02:40AM
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P2P could have totally transformed the industry if it had worked out a way to pay creators - especially niche creators and beginners.
It would have owned discovery, which would have badly damaged the big studios. And Netflix would probably have never happened.
It would have been a similar story in music.
But P2P was always about people who think a file is a file is a file, and creation costs are an externality, which can be ignored as irrelevant.
So now we have TPB limping along, and new creators are mostly owned by YT - which is legendary for draconian application of copyright in the favour of fellow corporates.
It would have owned discovery, which would have badly damaged the big studios. And Netflix would probably have never happened.
It would have been a similar story in music.
But P2P was always about people who think a file is a file is a file, and creation costs are an externality, which can be ignored as irrelevant.
So now we have TPB limping along, and new creators are mostly owned by YT - which is legendary for draconian application of copyright in the favour of fellow corporates.